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Living kidney donors may be at increased risk of hypertension
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Healthy, normotensive adults who donate a kidney are more likely than healthy nondonors to develop a 5-mm Hg increase in blood pressure within 5 to 10 years, the results of a meta-analysis suggest.
Making a decision of whether to transplant a kidney from a living donor involves weighing possible short- and long-term donor harm, and whether these are "outweighed by the psychological benefits of altruism and improved recipient health," Dr. Amit X. Garg and associates note in their paper, published in the August 1st issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. While the short-term risks are well established, long-term effects on blood pressure are unknown.
Dr. Garg, from London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada, and colleagues therefore conducted a literature search for the period from 1966 to 2005. They identified 48 studies, from 28 countries, in which 5145 donors were followed, on average, for 7 years (range 6 to 13 years).
At the time of surgery, the donors' average age was 41 years, systolic blood pressure 121 mm Hg, and mean diastolic blood pressure was 77 mm Hg. The authors found no individual study was large enough to detect a minimum 4-mm Hg increase in blood pressure.
However, the pooled estimates were statistically significant. Approximately 10 years after the transplant surgery, donors had weighted mean increase for systolic blood pressure of 6 mm Hg, and a weighted mean increase for diastolic blood pressure of 4 mm Hg.
Prognostic features associated with increases in blood pressure at follow-up included age > 60 years, male sex, higher baseline blood pressure, higher than ideal body weight, and lower glomerular filtration rate.
Dr. Garg's team advocates that transplant physicians "counsel and follow all donors, regardless of their predonation health state, to manage risk factors in an attempt to prevent hypertension and future cardiovascular disease."
Noting the heterogeneity of the studies and lack of randomization, the investigators believe that the results of their meta-analysis "can be best confirmed or refuted by a large, prospective multicenter cohort study, with representative numbers of donors and appropriate control participants."
